To:G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY

Written:Written on October 14, 1920Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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GlebMaximilianovich,

Iam sending Nikolayev’s reply.

TomorrowBotin should arrive and I will send him to
you.

Inview of Nikolayev’s doubts and suspicions, things
with Botin should be put on a precise and formal basis:
i.e., either you say, “it is not worth trying”. Then we shall
put an end to it all. Or you say, “it is worth while trying
again”. Then Botin is delegated to you and you give him
anexactassignment, place him inexactworking conditions,
underexact control. (Cannot he be made to write in detail,
in great detail, about the Tiflis experiment?)

Yours,Lenin